Must-see restaurants in Kodaikanal (Kodai)

  • Hotel Astoria

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    This pure-veg restaurant is always packed with locals and tourists, especially at lunchtime when it serves fantastic all-you-can-eat thalis.

  • Cloud Street

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    Why yes, that is a real Italian-style wood-fire pizza oven. And yes, that’s hummus and falafel on the menu, along with oven-baked pasta and homemade cakes…

  • Ten Degrees

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    Honey-coloured wood and monochrome Kodai photos set the tone for tasty, elegantly prepared Indian and continental food. It does mouth-meltingly spicy…

  • Altaf's Cafe

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    This open-sided cafe whips up soulful Italian, Indian and Middle Eastern dishes including breakfasts and sabich (Israeli aubergine-and-egg pita sandwiches…

  • Carlton

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    Definitely the place to come for a splash-out buffet-dinner fill-up: a huge variety of excellent Indian and continental dishes in limitless quantity…

  • Pastry Corner

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    Pick up oven-fresh muffins, croissants, cakes, cinnamon swirls and sandwiches at this popular bakery, or squeeze on to the benches with a cuppa.

  • Muncheez

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    An always-busy hole-in-the-wall turned contemporary lounge with a signature-plastered bar, Muncheez is all about a short, simple menu of wraps, burgers,…

  • Tava

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    Cheap, fast and clean, pure-veg Tava has a wide all-Indian menu; try the spicy, cauliflower-stuffed gobi paratha or sev puri (crisp, puffy fried bread…

  • Spencer's

    Kodaikanal (Kodai)

    Convenient supermarket selling fresh Pastry Corner treats.

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